Summer 1991
Table of Contents
Essays
Fractions of Life
Green
Motion Sickness: Strangers in Our Own Dying?
Notes from the Ecological Depths
Population Growth and Environmental Security
The Ikon Carver
The Speed of Light
Fiction
Easter Dresses
Keeping the Beat
Open-Heart Surgery
Poetry
Circle of Women
Naming the Stone
Nature
Pastoral
Razzy, Dazzy Turns to Jazz: 1900
Sand and Blue-Green Algae
The Great Depression
The Head of the Devil
The Love
The Voices; Will the Real Shakespeare Please Stand Up?; & Sixteenth Century, Brush and Ink: A Hermit on a Riverbank
Reviews
Every Poet in His Humor (on Narcissus Dreaming by Dabney Stuart; The Past, The Future, The Present: Poems Selected and New by Reed Whittemore; Distance from Loved Ones by James Tate; Popular Culture by Albert Goldbarth; Why We Live with Animals by Alvin Greenberg; Collected Poems: 1939-1989 by William Jay Smith; & The Death of Cock Robin by W. D. Snodgrass)
Novellas for the Nineties (on A Theftby Saul Bellow; The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow; I Lock My Door Upon Myself by Joyce Carol Oates; American Earthquakes by Constance Urdang; & War Babies by Frederick Busch)
on A Howard Nemerov Reader by Howard Nemerov
on Banned in Ireland: Censorship and the Irish Writer by Julia Carlson
on Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
on Omeros by Derek Walcott
on Real Presences by George Steiner
on The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America by Shelby Steele
on The High Spirits: Stories of Men and Women by David Huddle
The Calm Between the Storms (on The Rushdie File by Lisa Appignanesi and Sara Maitland; Salman Rushdie: Sentenced to Death by W. J. Weatherby; A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Rage of Islam by Malise Ruthven; & The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West by Daniel Pipes)
Wolfwatching by Ted Hughes
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